Juanli Carrión Studio
ART, ECOLOGY, AND COMMUNITY IN MOTION
Juanli Carrión is a creative practitioner and Assistant Professor at Parsons whose work spans public art, community-engaged research, and environmental justice. He co-founded OSS Project Inc. and has received recognition from institutions like the Van Alen Institute and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Voice and Belonging
Juanli Carrión’s work takes the form of living interventions rooted in vernacular ecologies. Projects like Outer Seed Shadow establish raised-community gardens in public housing, enabling residents to reclaim identity and care through planting and storytelling. In WaterWays and Broadway: 1000 Steps, he leads public walks and workshops that explore local water systems, connecting environmental histories with neighborhood futures.
Through these practices he frames art as a catalyst for collective agency, forging connections between human ecologies, social justice, and civic design. Whether digging soil or tracing water’s footprint, Carrión’s work invites reflection, co-creation, and long-term relational resilience.
Projects
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La Edad del Indio
Linking Leon’s historical economies, gold, sugar beet, and technology, this installation turns e-waste into sugar crystal sculptures, critiquing the precarious sustainability of modern industries.
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Un-Dramatics
In this video series, two figures shoot paintballs at a photographic landscape backdrop, symbolically dismantling representations of territory to question ideology and image construction.
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![Building the Neverending Ruin of the World]()
BNRW
Using Google search results for “ruin” across languages and places, this project creates layered digital landscapes. It exposes how online systems shape and distort collective memory.
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Memelismos
This participatory sculpture series invites communities in Spain, New York, and Colombia to explore borders, memory, and immigration through personal objects. Abstraction exercises surface collective narratives to rewrite history from below.
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![With Your Voice]()
With Your Voice
This public installation features megaphone sculptures sharing rezoning plans in Gowanus. Visitors respond via voice messages, contributing directly to community oversight efforts.
